I recognized a few faces in her back-up band, including Phil Collins, Eric Clapton’s long-time percussionist, and Eric himself.

At the same event, Eric and Paul McCartney did a pretty good rendition of ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps‘. This was one of my favorite Beatles songs long before I even knew that Eric had played guitar on the original. The story goes that the Beatles were cutting the White Album, and George Harrison had offered up this song. The others were dismissive, and not putting much effort into doing it. One day, he walked in with old friend Clapton, who told them that he was interested in playing on it. They took it more seriously after that.